Wretchedness Quotes

Wretchedness Quote of the day

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

Please don't give me words

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.

The Sacred Word of God shall sanctifies us of any wretchedness.